The Tucson Chinese Cultural Center organized a Rolling History Party. This is an event where the history committee rented a 60-person bus to offer a glimpse of the Tucson Chinese groceries’ storied past. We drove and stopped at 5 different Tucson barrios each set up with a storytelling booth, and access to food, music and dancing of Chinese and Mexican cultures.
Organizing and Accessing our Digital Histories in Physical ways.
The digital component to complement this project was to work with an the communities to pre-populate the 5 locations with historic images to allow people to access these resources with their mobile phone on site. We also planned to tweet and digitally archive the Rolling History Party. This was set up as an experiment to create community facilitated digital / physical collaborations and to test access to re-using our content for future history projects. Our findings include community contributions work when coordinating and collaborating with pre-existing events.
See our Storify: Beyond Groceries: Rolling History Party!
See our geo-located stops.
Foursquare Map in Tucson, Arizona
- Stop 1 : Barrio Hollywood at the Grande Tortilla Factory parking lot [914 N. Grande Ave]
- Stop 2: Barrio Anita nearby the Anita Street Market [849 N. Anita Ave]
- Stop 3: Iron Horse neighborhood meet at The Buffet Bar [538 E. 9th St]
- Stop 4: South Tucson, at the corner of South 9th Ave. and 26th Street, behind 100-year old La Primavera Market, [1600 S. 9th Ave] formerly the Lee Hop/Lee Fow Markets
- Stop 5: Lalo Guerrero Elderly Housing, 124 W. 18th St. 85701 where the carriage of historic Chinese grocer Lee Goon (property of Tucson Rodeo Parade Museum) on display
3 months after pulling this digital community-building project together this was presented at the 2012 November National Trust for Historic Preservation National Conference: Beyond Boundaries.
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